Is going to college actually worth it?

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Here are some of the classes that one of larger colleges in my region is offering:

Several brands of sociology.

History classes divided by certain periods.

American history from an Chicano point of view.

Adult education.

Algebra to Calculus.

Biology.

Accounting (which seems to be the only useful one to get a job)

Gender studies.

Fashion modeling.

Cinematic history.

Business presentations.

The list goes on, but it's more of less the same. But anyways, I'm bored and want an degree in something useful. But I'm not asking here. Instead, I'm kinda curious as to how an school of higher learning stay open by teaching something that employers shouldn't be looking for?
 
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Depends on what you want to do. If you want to teach, college is necessary. If you plan on doing finance, accounting, mathematics, you need college.

If you want to do beauty/cosmetology, culinary, masonry, welding, plumbing, etc. you need a trade school.

If you’re not sure, go to community college, and if you don’t like it/find anything you want to do, look into jobs that don’t require college. For instance, you could go to a police academy to be trained as a police officer (training is 1.5 years in the United States).

Most of all, don’t go to college if you’re pressured into it. It’s a lot of money and a massive time commitment. If you narrow down what you want to do, it will be easier to decide if you should go to college or not.
 
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First thing you have to do is find out what you want to do that is in demand and profitable. If you can't decide get a shit job and work a year, I can not stress how much this helps with motivation and setting you on a path. Unless your going for something STEM related or finance related don't fucking bother go to a trade.

Though I will ask what is Adult Education? Is it about teaching Adult retards? Is it a class that teaches you to be an adult? Is it one of those classes that teaches you how to go to college?

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I think there's a master course in that at CWCU
 
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Depends on what you want to do. If you want to teach, college is necessary. If you plan on doing finance, accounting, mathematics, you need college.

If you want to do beauty/cosmetology, culinary, masonry, welding, plumbing, etc. you need a trade school.

If you’re not sure, go to community college, and if you don’t like it/find anything you want to do, look into jobs that don’t require college. For instance, you could go to a police academy to be trained as a police officer (training is 1.5 years in the United States).

Most of all, don’t go to college if you’re pressured into it. It’s a lot of money and a massive time commitment. If you narrow down what you want to do, it will be easier to decide if you should go to college or not.
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Yeah, they have trade schools nearby. Mostly for stuff like HVAC and entry-level medical techs.
 
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Unless your going for something STEM related or finance related don't fucking bother go to a trade.
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Disagree. Since STEM is being pushed onto most people, the field is becoming over saturated (especially if you consider the outsourcing in some of those fields). More people = more competition. Finance and STEM are both useful and have their place, but there is so much more to do at college than that. Education, government, and law are taught at college as well.

Just because something is more in demand doesn’t guarantee a job either. If your social skills suck, finding any job is difficult.

Also, just going for what makes the most money isn’t a good idea if you’re miserable doing it. It’s important to be realistic in that area too. If you find yourself dreading every single required class for your major while piling on the debt, it’s not worth it.

I see where you’re coming from, but viewing college in that limited of a scope isn’t the best idea (especially since economies change and what becomes wanted can have less demand/lower pay in the future).
 
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Others have said it, but if you don't know what you want to do, try toinclude some trade professions. Everything varies by state, so pick things that you want to do, and balance it with the median income for places you want to live and start eliminating things from there.
 
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I got nagged into college and as a result dropped out. 6-7 years later, I feel like I've wasted my early 20s job hopping and not doing much of anything, so I plan to retake the ACT/SAT and go back when I can attend in person again. I still have no idea what I really want to do, there's a lot of divergent paths in my head. BUT, the point is people need to find something that suits them. Maybe I wouldn't be so numb to everything if I had a career to engage with instead of perceiving jobs as just a way of getting paid, something that could give me an intrinsic purpose and stop me from thinking of everything as ultimately pointless.

Going through higher education is a deeply personal thing to a lot of people. Think about what you think you want to do with your life and just go for it, life's too short to waste your time going through the motions.
 
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Regardless of what you may think, we live in a quite economically diverse society, where lots of things people do for money have mostly entertainment value anyways. Because people want their entertainment, someone who studied Fashion modelling or Gender Studies most likely will live off of it. I can bet that with any of those choices in your list you're eligible for some kind of work, if not in your current location then in somewhere else. Sometimes by becoming a faculty member in the Gender Studies department.

Also, I don't know about 'murica, but where I live having a univesity degree on something(any subject qualifies) is usually hard requirement for applying to jobs in public administration and higher-end office jobs in the private sector. It doesn't matter if your masters is in academic study of anal fisting, all they care about is that you have proof of certain level of work ethic and ability of writing/reading formal texts. And that's the gist of it, in my opinion: the graduation thesis is really just a written proof that you're capable of working independently and producing technical jargon of your chosen field of interest.
 
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Only if you know exactly what you're doing and are studying for a career with real world applications. (Doctors and lawyers are always in demand for example).

Don't go to college just for the sake of it. Worst case scenario, you drop out and get saddled with mountains of debt.
 
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College is for jobs. If whatever you're studying won't get you employment (if you don't have the degree) then there's no point.
There's other reason to go to college besides this, unless your parents are loaded and it doesn't matter what you study.

Degrees work on supply and demand, its why software developers make 6 figures and liberal arts majors struggle to find decent paying work.
 
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